Our soil washing technology will clean oil spill contaminated beaches.

Using our biocatalytic enzyme/protein technology we can recycle oil contaminated sands from beaches and marshlands affected by the Deep Water Horizon oil spill. Our process restores CLEAN SAND and allows for safe SEQUESTRATION AND RECLAIM THE OIL. Ours is a tested technology which has been applied successfully in the past:

The oil pictured had accumulated in a waste oil pit located near Hobbs, New Mexico. The contamination was 198,000 parts per million or 19.8% meaning that the sand was virtually saturated with oil (this level of saturation exceeds levels projected for beach contamination along the Gulf Coast). In less than 7 minutes we cleaned all but one-half of one percent of the oil out of the sand.

As you can see, after processing the sand was clean. It even still contained most of the indigenous (beneficial) bacteria that is part of the soil in that area. In one pass there was only 4000 parts per million or four-tenths of one percent total remaining hydrocarbons. A second pass or rinse stage would have taken the total remaining hydrocarbons down close to the limits of detection.

This is the recovered oil from the sand in the first photo. It was a usable crude product suitable for returning to the inventory for refinery feedstock. A key benefit of our process is that it recovers the oil in a usable state so that it does not contaminate landfills.





Below is a picture of the pilot plant that was constructed to clean the sand. The enzyme/protein solution is non toxic and animal friendly. Advances to the design of the plan have been made since this project to make it scalable and portable.